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March 4, 2013

Henderson, KY- IWT Solutions and ESCO Communications have entered into a business marketing and sales agreement. ESCO will now begin selling IWT’s patient throughput application, BedReady, to all levels of hospitals needing to improve capacity management; while also creating an enhancement to ESCO’s smart room concept.

BedReady is real-time optimization of patient throughput by managing bed capacity; a full-featured, browser based capacity management and patient throughput application providing workflow and productivity tools for bed management, housekeeping, and transport staff. Real-time monitoring of bed capacity and throughput is available for administrators and managers, as well as, a complete set of reporting tools for continuous improvement of the patient throughput process.

“All of us at ESCO Communications are very excited about our new partnership with IWT. ESCO has been providing innovative solutions to our customers in the Midwest for 50 years and value the creative solutions IWT brings to healthcare. Our new partnership gives us another technology solution that will play a key role in ESCO's smart room technology offering. In today's challenging healthcare environment our customers are looking for technology solutions to assist them in delivering safer and more efficient care. ESCO, with IWT, and our many other partners will provide compelling integrated solutions to enhance communication, efficiencies and ultimately improve outcomes and the overall patient experience.” Mike Harmon, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, ESCO Communications.

“We’re excited at IWT about the opportunities this new partnership affords our customers. From patient throughput to innovations in smart room technology, IWT and ESCO are bringing together software and communications to improve workflow and keeping patients safer.” Linda Frank, President, IWT Solutions.

IWT is a healthcare software company dedicated to improving patient safety and outcomes with innovative applications that ease workflow and throughput. Since 1986, IWT has been a cutting edge software company providing hospital facilities the flexible and powerful IT solutions needed to improve workflow efficiency and enhance patient safety. For more information on IWT, please visit www.iwtsolutions.com

ESCO Communications is a leading communications solutions provider who specializes in meeting the distinct needs of customers. ESCO is the expert design and installation since 1963. For more information please visit www.escocomm.com

December 13, 2012

IWT Solutions was the 2012 Recipient of the Small Business of the Year awarded by the Henderson-Henderson County Chamber of Commerce in Henderson, KY. Randy Lewis, Leighann Hargis, David Whitesides and Brandon Montgomery were in attendance to receive the award on behalf of IWT. The Small Business of the Year of the award goes to companies who exemplify community volunteer efforts, company growth and make a positive impact on the community as a whole. Noted for the award were the following attributes of IWT:

Donating employee time to many Henderson Volunteer Organizations
Sponsoring several Henderson events throughout each year
Employee donations to several community agencies
Donation of PICASO electronic documentation system to the Henderson County High School and Henderson Community College for nursing students.

April 13, 2012

IWT Solutions (Innovative Workflow Technologies) and Southwestern Communications (SWC) have entered into a business marketing agreement. Southwestern Communications will now begin selling IWT’s patient throughput application, BedReady to all levels of hospitals needing to improve capacity management.

BedReady is real-time optimization of patient throughput by managing bed capacity; a full-featured, browser-based capacity management and patient throughput application providing workflow and productivity tools for bed management, housekeeping, and transport staff. Real-time monitoring of bed capacity and throughput is available for administrators and managers, as well as a complete set of reporting tools for continuous improvement of the patient throughput process.

“We are excited about the opportunity to offer a line extension of capacity management to our healthcare communication solutions. With BedReady, we are able to continue the focus of helping our customers improve their performance which will positively impact the patient’s experience. This formalization of our agreement will enable more effective collaboration and offer a complete line of solutions that will enhance patient outcomes.” Matt Loveland, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, SWC

We’re very excited about our partnership with SWC. With their focus on nurse call, workflow, and electronic communication, they are uniquely positioned to promote the value of BedReady. Linda Frank, President, IWT

Southwestern Communications, Inc. is an independent total systems integrator with over 25 years of expertise. SWC offers turnkey integrated communications technology solutions to clients in a variety of industries including healthcare. For more information on Southwestern Communications, please visit www.swc.net.

Innovative Workflow Technologies Receives State Business Award

April 17, 2012

Innovative Workflow Technologies (IWT) located in Henderson, KY has been named as one of the recipients of the 2012 Kentucky Business Pacesetter Award by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center.

The Kentucky Pacesetter Business Recognition Program recognizes high performing Kentucky small businesses that are currently producing innovative products, increasing sales, creating jobs and serving communities of the Commonwealth. Winners were selected based on two or more of the following categories: growth in number of employees, increase in sales and/or unit volume, innovativeness of the product, response to adversity, employee engagement and commitment, contribution to aide community oriented projects or other criteria contributing to the business’ success.

IWT will be recognized in front of government leaders and other small business owners at the Kentucky Celebrates Small Business event in May. They have also been invited to an exclusive luncheon held at the Governor’s Mansion following the event.

“What a great and well-deserved honor for what we believe is one of the Commonwealth’s leading technology firms,” said Kevin T. Sheilley, NWKF President/CEO. “How technology is used in health care is changing rapidly, and it is exciting to know that one of the companies on the forefront of that change in based in Northwest Kentucky. IWT is a great corporate citizen and we are pleased to see them honored.”

IWT is a leader in the field of health care technology and has accomplished this by focusing on the needs of rural and community hospitals. IWT’s products are designed to help with the integration and exchange of health information from clinical web portals, mobile apps, alerts, bed management to HIPAA compliant security applications.

Beyond creating jobs and investing into the Commonwealth, IWT is also very involved in their community. The company has been active with local organizations such as the River Bend Academy for the Performing Arts, Henderson County High School, Henderson-Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement, Downtown Henderson Project and the Volunteer & Information Center.

“We are honored to have been chosen as a Kentucky Business Pacesetter. With support and collaboration from Northwest Kentucky Forward, the local high schools, and community college, IWT is indeed making strides in developing and hiring information technology professionals in Northwest Kentucky. Through these efforts Kentucky is helping IWT fulfill its mission of improving patient safety and outcomes in healthcare through the development of innovative software applications” said Linda Frank, IWT President

To learn more about Innovative Workflow Technologies visit www.iwtsolutions.com

Northwest Kentucky Forward is a public-private partnership charged with creating wealth and opportunity for Henderson, McLean, Union and Webster Counties. To learn more about Northwest Kentucky Training Consortium and Northwest Kentucky Forward: www.northwestky.com

IWT to Integrate PICASO to Wishard Health Services’ Emergency Department

November 29, 2011

IWT, Innovative Workflow Technologies, a healthcare software company, announces the implementation of PICASO in the Emergency Department of Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis, IN.

PICASO is a certified software application that increases caregivers’ time devoted to patient care and ensures regulatory compliance through intuitive touch technology. PICASO is being implemented into the Wishard Emergency Department (ED), one of the busiest ED’s in the state, for quick and accurate caregiver documentation. The PICASO integration will provide an easier way to manage workflow and patient throughput; this will include tracking patients currently in the ED with an ED Patient Tracking Board. Wishard Health Services is a major downtown hospital located in Indianapolis, IN with 317 patient beds. With an average of 100,000 ED visits a year, PICASO will immediately streamline the workflow of the department by reducing documentation time. With an extensive clinical team, training on PICASO is expected to be minimal and the transition to be easy.

“I truly enjoy working with IWT. We have used their bed management system, BedReady, for almost 5 years. IWT works well with you to plan an implementation, they really listen to what their customers have to say. Also, over the years, if there are ever any questions at any time of day or not about the BedReady system, IWT provides immediate support. We are most excited to go into this next phase of working together to provide electronic patient tracking and documentation in the emergency department setting.” Lee Ann Blue, CNO, Wishard Health Services.

Specific applications developed for PICASO in which the Emergency Department will be providing caregivers’ alerts and reminders to perform compliance-related tasks; all on a unique touch screen view located in the patient rooms.

Linda Frank, IWT President, “We are excited about this opportunity to work with the Wishard team. They are quite a creative group and share our enthusiasm for applying information technology in innovative ways. Together we will facilitate efficient movements of patients through the ED process, while achieving better patient outcomes.

IWT specializes in software applications for the healthcare industry offering many solutions including a certified clinical documentation system, user provisioning applications, patient education, inventory management and a bed capacity management system. All applications are developed in-house. IWT promises exceptional customer service with attention to detail and client needs.

IWT’s PICASO Clinical Documentation Receives Rave Reviews!

November 29, 2011 - Henderson, KY

Innovative Workflow Technologies (IWT), a healthcare software company dedicated to improving patient safety and outcomes, announced passing Joint Commission reviews on the clinical documentation system, PICASO in St. Joseph Health System(SJHS).

Located in Tawas City, Michigan, SJHS’s version of PICASO was part of a recent survey from the Joint Commission where the documentation system received rave reviews. “We were very excited and wanted IWT to know immediately since PICASO had not yet gone through Joint Commission.” Donna Wiltfong-Wilson, Administrative Director of Nursing Services, SJHS. The survey by the Joint Commission was very thorough and specifically focused on care plans and restraint monitoring documentation.

Comments reported about PICASO, according to Ms. Wilson, included:

Surveyors were able to see that PICASO was not a “canned” product and has been developed by nurses for nurses.
PICASO access was role-based. Hospital volunteers are able to login and only have access to the information needed to do their job without having access to private patient information.
Happy to see PICASO was integrated for all disciplines to document inpatient care.

Other compliments to PICASO included concise care plans and restraint history recording. Ms. Wilson also states about PICASO and its use in the hospital, “(PICASO) is developed and used in a way that is reflective of the care being provided-we are very excited with the product we have.”

IWT is a healthcare software company dedicated to improving patient safety and outcomes with innovative applications that ease workflow and throughput. PICASO is IWT’s certified software application that increases caregivers’ time to devote to patient care and ensures regulatory compliance through intuitive touch technology.

In addition to clinical documentation software, IWT also provides other solutions to improve workflow in a hospital setting including: a user provisioning application, an interactive patient television and an inventory management system. All applications are developed in-house and are backed by an experienced support staff. IWT promises exceptional customer service with attention to detail and client needs.

Union Hospital Clinton and Union Hospital Terre Haute Recognized in H&HN’s 2011 Most Wired Survey

July 19, 2011- Henderson, KY

Hospital & Health Network’s Annual Most Wired Survey results have been published and Union Clinton Hospital in Clinton, IN has been recognized as one of the top most wired small & rural hospitals. Union Clinton Hospital is equipped with software solutions from IWT (Innovative Workflow Technologies). IWT specializes in medical software development known for improving workflow and enhancing patient safety. UHC has seen a 50% reduction in documentation time since integrating IWT’s clinical documentation system, PICASO.

The Most Wired Survey is conducted by McKesson Corporation, HIT Exchange, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the American Hospital Association. Approximately 24% of all U.S. hospitals participated in the survey that took place between Jan 15-March 15th. Respondents were asked to answer questions regarding their IT initiatives. 530 surveys were completed; representing 1, 399 hospitals.

Union Hospital, Terre Haute, IN-incorporated with Union Hospital Clinton, was recognized as one of the most improved for 2011.

Union Hospital and Union Hospital Clinton are an incorporated hospital system; Union Hospital being the largest provider of health services between Indianapolis and St. Louis-serving Indiana and Illinois. Union Hospital is licensed for 350 beds and Union Hospital Clinton is a 25 bed critical access hospital.

IWT is a cutting-edge and experienced software provider serving healthcare facilities who count on us to enhance workflow efficiency and patient safety. IWT has been providing flexible, powerful IT solutions and services to the healthcare market since 1986.

IWT Wins Small Business Technology Award for State of Kentucky

Innovative Workflow Technologies (IWT) has won the 2011 Small Business Technology award presented by ConnectKentucky, an organization in the state of Kentucky aimed at advancing technology in the Commonwealth. The award was based on a nomination sent by Northwest Kentucky Forward, the organization responsible for bringing IWT to Henderson. IWT relocated it’s headquarters from Evansville, IN to Henderson KY. This May, marks the 1-year anniversary of the move to Henderson.

The Small Business Technology Award goes to a small business that has successfully used broadband technology to broaden its customer reach and provide a positive example of technology. The award goes to organizations with less than 150 employees.

“Northwest Kentucky Forward was honored to nominate one of the region’s best for this award from ConnectKentucky. IWT is creating technology advanced products that dramatically improve the delivery of health care and they are doing it in our region with our people. Not only are they a great employer, but they are a great corporate citizen and we look forward to continuing to watch them grow in Northwest Kentucky”. Kevin Sheilley, President/CEO Northwest KY Forward.

According to Brandis Blodgett of ConnectKentucky, “Innovative Workflow Technologies was selected as the winner of ConnectKentucky’s Small Business Technology Award for successfully using broadband technology to broaden customer reach and provide a positive example of technology use and capabilities in the commonwealth. What stood out to me about IWT is that not only is IWT using technology in the commonwealth, but this technology is being developed and customized in our backyard. IWT is a leader in the healthcare technology field. Their PICASO software and CareTV products are truly impressive!”

According to the nomination form sent in by Northwest Kentucky Forward, “IWT is fast becoming a leader in the burgeoning field of health care technology and they have accomplished this by focusing on the needs of community hospitals. Their success is driven by their ability to deliver the expertise and tools needed to meet their client’s needs, enhancing patient safety and improving efficiency with a host of tailor-made technology solutions. Their products are designed to foster the integration and exchange of health information from clinical web portals, Mobile apps, alerts and bed management to EMPI and downtime solutions. Also, IWT offers responsive custom development teams and rapid deployment. All with technology being developed and customized in Northwest Kentucky.”

“We are pleased to accept this award from ConnectKentucky. Our partnership with Kentucky has been win-win. Northwest Kentucky has welcomed and supported us, and IWT is providing opportunities for Kentucky information technology professionals and students.” Linda Frank, President, IWT.

IWT is a medical software company aimed at improving hospital workflow and enhancing patient safety. For more information on IWT and our solutions, please visit http://iwtsolutions.com.

PICASO Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification

April 26, 2011

IWT's PICASO nursing documentation system has received 2011/2012 EHR Modular** Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting providers with Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). PICASO was certified on April 15, 2011 under ICSA Labs' ONC-ATCB Electronic Health Record program and is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

PICASO 1 meets the following certification criteria:

1. General Criteria
- Maintain active medication allergy list
- Record and chart vital signs
- Smoking status
- Incorporate laboratory test results
- Medication Reconciliation
- Submission to immunization registries
- Access control
- Emergency access
- Automatic log-off
- Audit log
- Integrity
- Authentication
- General encryption
- Encryption when exchanging electronic health information
2. Inpatient Criteria
- Advance directives

Innovative Workflow Technologies (IWT) is an innovative and experienced software provider serving healthcare facilities who count on us on to enhance workflow efficiency and patient safety. IWT has been providing flexible, powerful IT solutions and services since 1986 predominantly in the healthcare market.

The ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification program tests and certifies that EHR technology is capable of meeting the 2011/2012 criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The certifications include Complete EHRs, which meet all of the 2011/2012 criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology and EHR Modules, which meet one or more - but not all - of the criteria.

* This EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments. PICASO 1 was certified on April 15, 2011. CHPL Product Number: EHRX-INNOVATIVE-2011

About ICSA Labs

ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers third-party testing and certification of security products and network-connected devices, such as printers and faxes, to measure product compliance, reliability and performance to many of the world's top security vendors. Visit http://www.icsalabs.com and http://www.icsalabs.com/blogs for more information.

PIMS Management - Improving Workflow, Revenue & Safety!

Technological advances have impacted healthcare facilities in numerous ways during the last couple of decades, by improving workflow and reducing operating costs. A hospital's inventory system can account for 40% of total operating budget, according to Materials Management Magazine (April 2010). Redesigning workflow with the use of technology can help keep inventory costs minimal. Implementing an inventory control system properly can positively influence a hospital's bottom line by streamlining processes and capturing correct patient charges; and keeping lower inventories on the floor without oversupplying. Innovative Workflow Technologies (IWT) has created an inventory management control system, PIMS Management. PIMS offers effective and efficient inventory control that can increase revenue and save hospital staff time.

PIMS was created for Union Hospital in Terre Haute, IN by IWT as a part of the new hospital addition, to better manage materials in the nursing units' supply closets. When developing PIMS, it was important to create a system that is tightly integrated with nursing workflow to ensure that it is easy and convenient for the nurse to use. PIMS can easily be joined with IWT's nursing documentation software, PICASO. PIMS is accessed through a touch screen mounted on the wall in the supply closet; patient charges are immediately processed when scanning the inventory. Items in the closet are located in bins that are bar coded; including items that are non-billable. Nurses can then scan the items taken from the supply closet. Once an item is scanned, the usage data flows directly to the materials management application. The information is processed hourly to decrement the inventory allowing for the delivery of supplies at specific times throughout the day. This reduces the number of calls nurses have to make when running out of supply items, thus saving nursing time. The process also eliminates the need to make multiple daily trips to the nursing units to manually count the inventory in the supply closets.

When the two systems, PICASO and PIMS, are combined, features are added on that can increase patient safety by reducing the amount of costly hospital never-events. Keeping the appropriate amount of catheters on-hand will help reduce the amounts of UTI's for the hospital. Additionally, PICASO and PIMS working together can reduce documentation of the care given to the IV; PIMS will show if a new line has been taken out of the inventory closet, showing a history of whether or not a line has been changed out.

The materials management application is a crosswalk between inventory and information in the hospital; PIMS saves materials management staff time simply by issuing a closet report sent to the materials management logging in mistakes and showing current inventory and use.

The future of PIMS will have many other functions; for example, PIMS will be used to automate the patient charge flow for IV pumps.

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